The Sobig-F worm appeared in August of 2003, not long after the Blaster worm. It went down in history as the fastest spreading virus ever. Carrying it’s own internal SMTP engine, it was able to email copies of itself at an explosive rate.
This Day In Tech History
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
-Popular Mechanics, March 1949More Tech History
Rear Admiral Grace Hopper records the first computer bug, a moth that got stuck inside one of the relays of the Harvard Mark II Computer. Hopper eventually went on to help invent COBOL.
ENIAC is unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
The first outline of the architecture of a stored-program computer was done by John Von Neumann, in his "First Draft of a Report on EDVAC".
The Plankalkül programming language is developed in Nazi Germany.